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Cancer in Jewish migrants to Israel
Author(s) -
Parkin D. M.,
Steinitz R.,
Khlat M.,
Kaldor J.,
Katz L.,
Young J.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
international journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.475
H-Index - 234
eISSN - 1097-0215
pISSN - 0020-7136
DOI - 10.1002/ijc.2910450407
Subject(s) - residence , demography , judaism , incidence (geometry) , etiology , medicine , cancer , population , duration (music) , pancreatic cancer , geography , sociology , archaeology , art , physics , literature , optics
Data on the incidence of 15 cancers in the Jewish population of Israel from the period 1961–1981 have been studied with emphasis on the risk of disease in relation to birthplace, calendar time, and duration of residence in Israel. The results show wide variations in incidence by birthplace, from less than 2‐fold for pancreatic cancer to a 40‐fold difference for oesophageal cancer in females; the reasons for these are often little understood. The potential importance of environmental agents in aetiology for different migrant groups is discussed in relation to the size and rapidity of changes in risk related to the duration of residence in Israel.